NextBillion.ai provides a comprehensive suite of tools designed to automate and optimize last mile delivery operations. Here’s how businesses can use these solutions:

For Advanced Route Planning

NextBillion.ai’s advanced route planning capabilities enable businesses to generate optimal routes tailored to their specific delivery operations. This includes:

• 50+ hard and soft constraints: Configure routing algorithms with over 50 customizable constraints to meet unique operational needs, ensuring precise and accurate routes.
• Support for multiple vehicle profiles: Customize routes based on vehicle types and capacities to ensure optimal utilization of the fleet.
• Custom cost matrices: Plan cost-effective routes by creating custom cost matrices tailored to individual vehicle profiles, considering factors like fuel consumption and maintenance.
• Custom road permissions and restrictions: Set specific road permissions and restrictions to comply with local regulations and road conditions, enhancing safety and compliance.
• Custom objective functions: Define routing priorities, such as shortest distance, fastest time, or lowest cost, to align routes with operational goals.
• Complex task sequencing: Organize delivery tasks efficiently by considering delivery windows, customer preferences, and task dependencies.

For Dynamic Reoptimization

Dynamic reoptimization allows businesses to have unlimited free reruns within 24 hours without additional costs and update in-progress routes in real time. This feature helps accommodate:

• Ad-hoc Jobs: Seamlessly integrate last-minute delivery requests without disrupting the existing schedule.

• Cancellations and reprioritizations: Adjust routes to account for cancellations or changes in delivery priorities, maintaining service levels.

• Efficiency maintenance: Ensure routes remain optimal despite changes in real-time conditions.

• Latest ETAs as per current traffic: Rerun optimization before each assigned route starts to consider current traffic conditions, providing the most accurate ETAs at no extra charge.

For Accurate Capacity Planning

NextBillion.ai’s capacity planning features enable businesses to accurately predict delivery capacity availability and optimize resource allocation. This involves:

• Running simulations: Test various capacity and mixed-fleet scenarios at no extra cost to determine the most efficient allocation of resources.
• Multidimensional capacities: Define vehicle capacities using multidimensional attributes, ensuring consistency with job and shipment quantities.
   
• Alternative capacity configurations: Specify alternate capacity configurations for vehicles to handle varying types of loads. This flexibility ensures optimal use of vehicle space and resources.
• Predict delivery capacity: Accurately predict available delivery capacity for upcoming time slots based on current usage. This allows businesses to plan and schedule deliveries more effectively, avoiding overbooking and underutilization.

For Intelligent Clustering and Zoning

NextBillion.ai’s intelligent clustering and zoning capabilities, a key component of last mile automation, enable businesses to optimize delivery efficiency and accuracy. Key features include:

• Driving distances and traffic patterns: Minimizing travel time and fuel consumption by optimizing job clusters based on real-time traffic conditions and driving distances.
• Drivers’ location preferences: Assigning jobs based on driver familiarity with specific areas, increasing efficiency and reducing delivery times.
• Allowed zones for vehicles: Specifying zones where vehicles are permitted to fulfill tasks, ensuring that vehicles only operate within designated areas.
• Restricted zones for vehicles: Defining zones where vehicles are restricted from fulfilling tasks, although they may still travel through these areas.
• Bundling orders: Utilizing the Clustering API to bundle orders or jobs based on user-defined constraints. This minimizes the total distance or duration required to service each cluster from a central location.

For Live Tracking and Delivery Alerts

NextBillion.ai offers comprehensive live tracking and delivery alerts as part of its last mile automation solutions, enhancing the management and monitoring of delivery operations. Key features include:

• Real-time monitoring: Utilize the Live Tracking API to monitor the location, status and activity of various assets, including vehicles, users, and drivers in real time.
• Customer notifications: Provide customers with accurate ETAs and updates on their delivery status.
• Geofence-based alerts: Implement the Geofence API to establish custom geographical boundaries. Receive alerts when assets enter or exit these geofences, preventing missed deliveries and enhancing operational control.
• Create and manage assets: Track individual assets and manage their lifecycle, ensuring that all assets are accounted for and monitored accurately.
• Create alerts based on asset activity: Define custom alerts based on specific asset activities. These alerts can be used to notify managers of important events, such as delays, deviations from the planned route, or unauthorized stops.